Big data at the service of public safety and security
The EU-funded AEGIS project has successfully lowered the barrier to working with 'big data' from diverse sources, across different formats, structures and languages. Its open-source, cloud-based infrastructure opens up many potential use cases and new business models, from helping insurers and policyholders process – and even pre-empt – claims, to supporting elderly people to maintain their independence for longer.
‘Public safety and personal security covers many important social and economic areas, including accidents or criminal acts, food safety, homeland security, emergency response, natural disaster management and environmental safety,’ says project coordinator Yury Glikman of Fraunhofer FOKUS in Germany. ‘This diversity of sectors, domains, languages and data sources, and especially the lack of a common data structure, has been one of the main challenges to developing effective big data services for public safety and security.’
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